It’s renewable energy that causes real earthquakes

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On June 1 this year a Mr Andrew Noakes was having lunch in Shropshire when, he
says: “I thought I heard something. The sound only went on for a few seconds
and then it stopped. There was no shaking cutlery or furniture.”

It was a natural earthquake, bigger than the ones caused by fracking in
Lancashire last year. Worldwide there are a million each year of a similar
size. Very few are even noticed. A magnitude 2.3 tremor is to a dangerous
earthquake as a tiny stream is to the Amazon: the same sort of thing but far
less likely